The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of foreign capital as measured by private foreign investment, foreign aid, military aid, workers' remittances, and travel and tourism revenues, on the investment and economic growth of Turkey from 1960 to 1985. A simu…
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This dissertation first examines the performance of Turkey's apparel, textile, and motor vehicle and parts industries using plant-level data from 1987-1997. The interesting results include the significant impact of foreign ownership, technology purchase, subcontracting, location…
In recent decades, many developing countries have launched trade reforms aimed at an export-oriented strategy. While most of these countries have experienced a reversal of these reforms, only a few have managed to sustain them. What explains these two different paths? Why is a s…
Women's role in contemporary Iranian economy has either been ignored or portrayed as suppressed by the state's so-called "Islamic" ideologies and policies. This thesis argues that while the post-revolutionary state's Islamization attempted to create a particular gender system th…
Between 1979 and 1999, total Turkish exports rose from US757 million to US35 billion (Foreign Trade Statistics 1996 ). This "export boom" (Barlow and Senses 1995) has been recognized as an economic "success story" (Pomfret 1990). The Turkish clothing industry played a key role i…
In this dissertation we present a theoretical and empirical analysis of price and non-price competition of firms in the Turkish Automobile Industry. In the past, this industry has been highly protected from foreign competition and shielded from competitive developments of the wo…
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide insight into the determinants of sustained economic performance in the global economy, using the co-evolution of Germany's and Turkey's apparel industries as key cases. Germany is the second-largest apparel importer in the world. Tu…
This dissertation examines the economic impact of multinational corporation (MNC) transfer-pricing system in the Third-World countries. Iran serves to illustrate the problem that is caused by MNC transfer-pricing system in a Third-World nation. Transfer-pricing system is a techn…
The New Brunswick Power Corporation has met its mandate as a monopoly utility very successfully over the years. However, with deregulation of the utility industry approaching, customers of New Brunswick Power may want the right to purchase competitively priced power from other s…